Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

I keep trying to get a photo that shows the salmon on the breast of the male as he matures..... I haven't succeeded, but I will keep trying. I have seen it on other's photos...and it is interesting because it all disappears as the boys mature from my limited experience...there is no salmon left---but there is a tint when they are little tikes.

Here is a pict today of 'Heart'. His white head spot as a chick was --- you guessed it --- shaped like a heart.






Interesting thing about him is that he does show some nice body-length and is feathering in on the breast very light colored---can you discern the tinge of salmon. I'll keep trying to capture it.

He is however a little guy with a slanted comb -- it starts on the left side of his beak and then ends more toward the right side of the back of his head. As a consequence he has quite a bushy crest.... like Liberache. (did I spell that right?) Anyway he is quite the energetic little guy. I tell him he has his mother's eyes. Lol.

ETA if you click on the pict, it will enlarge.

 

[GaryDean26]

I keep every first pullet egg....hollow (blow with gizmo) it out, and let it dry.

Here's a photo of Robin's first egg.....




I'm saying it is a bit lighter than oac179 -- and I would like to see more stauration in clb eggs. Y'know you can't go by the right side because that is reflecting all the light...and y'can't go by the left side because that is in shadow. It's impossible to get an exact photo, good match etc. -- but I'm saying lighter than oac179.... as a benchmark.

It is fascinating the range of colors we all have. (which I think is a good thing. I like to be able to tell each chicken's egg -by looks. )

I keep a lot of my first eggs too. The first egg from my Gold Legbar was a oac851. She later faded so light that I had to look really close to see any difference in color between the Gold Legbar egg and the White Leghorn Eggs.

I only have blown eggs from my original two Cream Legbar hen from when they were about 3 month into their laying cycle. They were both closest to the oac123 even though the "A" hen was a hair paler than the "B" hen's egg.

My "B" hen has darker greener egg at the beginning of her laying cycle while the "A" keep the pale color through the full cycle. I got my first egg from the "B" hen in over a month three days ago. It was tons greener that anything she had ever laid before it was an oac102. I guess CJWalden was right she said we would get green eggs. A hen I brought into my flock last a week and a half ago built a nest yesterday. I wonder if she is getting ready to start laying again. I can't wait to use my new chart on her egg color.

For fun I also did a first egg from one of my Marans. It was oac698. Can anyone tell me what number darkness that is on the Marans scale?

 

[ChicKat]

I keep a lot of my first eggs too. The first egg from my Gold Legbar was a oac851. She later faded so light that I had to look really close to see any difference in color between the Gold Legbar egg and the White Leghorn Eggs.

I only have blown eggs from my original two Cream Legbar hen from when they were about 3 month into their laying cycle. They were both closest to the oac123 even though the "A" hen was a hair paler than the "B" hen's egg.

My "B" hen has darker greener egg at the beginning of her laying cycle while the "A" keep the pale color through the full cycle. I got my first egg from the "B" hen in over a month three days ago. It was tons greener that anything she had ever laid before it was an oac102. I guess CJWalden was right she said we would get green eggs. A hen I brought into my flock last a week and a half ago built a nest yesterday. I wonder if she is getting ready to start laying again. I can't wait to use my new chart on her egg color.

For fun I also did a first egg from one of my Marans. It was oac698. Can anyone tell me what number darkness that is on the Marans scale?

Thanks for all the info! I have always wondered what gold legbar egg color was...I think I have heard it identified as 'tinted'. oac851 is a greener cream than I was expecting. Also nice on your Marans. That is a rich color.

So CJWalden, and lots of us are getting slightly different shades. oac102 is really a true green to my eyes....oac123 is what a lot of 'blue' eggs are. I have an EE that is now laying a oac116 and I like that color for its saturation.

 

[stoneunhenged]

Sheesh I sure hope a bunch of hybrids don't flood the market all of a sudden- we are having a hard enough time nailing down what the pure birds are supposed to look like!

Rinda

Which is why I offered to donate $500 to your new American Cream Legbar Club to establish an online registry so that you can be reasonably sure all cream legbars that are registered will be purebred. You have a unique opportunity to begin registering birds starting with the very first cream legbars that were legally imported into the United States.

 

[ChicKat]

x2 what Rinda and Stoneunhenged said.

Please take a look at this link and weigh-in on what we need to do. Thanks!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/720859/cream-legbar-club-wwit

 

[lawatt]

i took a couple of photos of my two CLs yesterday -- amelia is 11 weeks with no crest, and speedy is 9 weeks (i think) with a crest:



speedy and amelia



miss amelia -- i love that huge tail!

 

[nicalandia]

i took a couple of photos of my two CLs yesterday -- amelia is 11 weeks with no crest,



miss amelia -- i love that huge tail!

Miss Amelia not Only lacks any sex linked Barring, autosomal recessive Cream on her. she shows partial lacing(Pg/pg+) on her breast... she is not a CL, but she could be a project bird? maybe you are doing an outcross of some sort? where did you get her?

 

[lawatt]

Miss Amelia not Only lacks any sex linked Barring, autosomal recessive Cream on her. she shows partial lacing(Pg/pg+) on her breast... she is not a CL, but she could be a project bird? maybe you are doing an outcross of some sort? where did you get her?

from Deann at Just Struttin' Farm (who i think is on this thread)... she would know her parentage?
http://www.juststruttinfarm.com/breeds.html

 

[nicalandia]

from Deann at Just Struttin' Farm... she would know her parentage?

I bet she does, I bet she is some sort of outcross or something similar...OR... maybe a none CL related(genetically) chick got mixed up with your batch?

 

[lawatt]

I bet she does, I bet she is some sort of outcross or something similar...OR... maybe a none CL related(genetically) chick got mixed up with your batch?

thanks, i'll send her a note...